June Eubanks

Current

• Actor/Role: Mrs. Cratchit at Metropolis Performing Arts Center

Past

• Visiting Director at Promethean Theatre Ensemble
• Acting Instructor at Beverly Arts Center
• Stage Manager at Asolo Conservatory Theatre

• Professor (Graduate Internship) at Illinois State University
• Assistant Artistic Director at Illinois Shakespeare Festival

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Education

• Illinois State University
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
• Parkland College

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Connections

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Industry

Performing Arts

Websites

• My Website

June Eubanks’s Experience

• Actor/Role: Mrs. Cratchit

  Metropolis Performing Arts Center

  (Performing Arts industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Charles Dickens' - A Christmas Carol

• Visiting Director

  Promethean Theatre Ensemble

  (Performing Arts industry)

  January 2009 — October 2009 (10 months)

  I am casting and directing Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. The show opens on May 16, 2009. Please visit prometheantheatre.org for more details.

• Acting Instructor

  Beverly Arts Center

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)

  March 2005 — May 2005 (3 months)

  Students were instructed on how to read a play and discover the action within each section. After some analysis, one-act plays were chosen and the class divided into groups of two and three. Class time was used for rehearsal, constructive criticism, and performance of action using the methods of Stanislavsky and Meisner. Students participated in gathering appropriate costumes, props, and in building set pieces. The class concluded with an invited-audience performance of the one-acts, with discussion afterward.

• Stage Manager

  Asolo Conservatory Theatre

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)

  December 2000 — June 2001 (7 months)

  My professional graduate internship responsibilities included assisting the directors, detailed scheduling of all rehearsals, costume fittings and production meetings, rehearsal management, safety supervision, running the sound and light boards, and timing the dress rehearsals and performances. The season included Rumors, The Physicists, Stop/Kiss, and The Memory of Water. I worked under the supervision of the Artistic Director, Brant Pope and the Technical Director, Rick Cannon.

• Professor (Graduate Internship)

  Illinois State University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1999 — December 2000 (2 years )

  THE151 (History of the Theatre in Western Culture)
  Introductory survey of the history of the Western theatre from its origins to the present, with particular emphasis on the influences of previous theatrical periods on the theatre of our time.
  
  THE240 (Principles of Stage Direction)
  Acquaints the student with the basic principles of stage direction and provides a basic vocabulary and methodology. This course covers script analysis, breaking scripts down into beats, working with actors, staging visual pictures and blocking, auditioning, working with designers, etc. Each student is required to participate in “in class” exercises, write analytical essays, and direct one 15-20 minute scene or one-act play.
  
  THE100 (Introduction to the Literature of the Theatre)
  Survey of the literature of theatre from the Greeks to the present. Emphasis is on the study of structure, genres, and history of the period in which the play was produced.

• Assistant Artistic Director

  Illinois Shakespeare Festival

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Performing Arts industry)

  February 2000 — August 2000 (7 months)

  Working with this annual summer festival entailed assisting professional directors from around the country, writing and directing a twenty-five minute synopsis of Shakespeare’s King John, and assisting the artistic director with auditions, scheduling, planning, production meetings, and attending to the details of running a professional acting ensemble. I worked under the former artistic director, Cal MacLean.

June Eubanks’s Education

• Illinois State University

  MFA , Directing/Theatre , 1998 — 2001

  Illinois Shakespeare Festival (1999 & 2000), ISF tour director, Inter-department awards: Best Directed Production: Machinal in 1999, and The Importance of Being Earnest in 2000.

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  BA , Theatre Arts , 1994 — 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  President, Student Theatre Guild, Irene Ryan Nominee (2 yrs.), 4.0 GPA

• Parkland College

  AA , Art & Design , 1990 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Theatre scholarship student, Director of the 2nd Annual Student Production, Art Show Award (sculpture)

Additional Information

June Eubanks’s Websites:

• My Website

June Eubanks’s Interests:

Directing, performing, writing/adapting, teaching and choreography

June Eubanks’s Honors:

Theatre Scholarship Student, Parkland College 1991-1993
Student Director, Second Annual Student Production, Parkland College 1993
Student Representative to the Faculty Committee, Parkland College 1992-93, Southern Illinois University 1995-96, and Illinois State University 1999-2000.
Founder and President of the Student Theatre Guild, Southern Illinois University 1995-96.
Irene Ryan Nominee in the American College Theatre Festival, Southern Illinois University, 1994 and 1995.
Archibald McLeod Award for Academic Excellence, Southern Illinois University 1996.
Outstanding Service Award, Southern Illinois University 1996.
Theatre Department Student Government, Illinois State University, 1998-99.
Alvin Goldfarb Award for Best Graduate-Directed Production, Illinois State University, Machinal, 1999.
Alvin Goldfarb Award for Best Graduate-Directed Production, Illinois State University, The Importance of Being Earnest, 2000.

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